Rabinovich Archive and «Taganskiye»
After a three-week break related to the New Year holidays, the Moscow City Court resumes the trial of the leaders and participants of the Tagansky organized criminal group.
In the last month of last year, one of the leaders of Tagansky, Grigory Rabinovich, undoubtedly became the main figure in the process.
It was often mentioned. For example, when the jury heard witnesses and examined evidence of the episode of the abduction and murder of Yaroslavl businessman Alexey Pokrovsky in 2004.
Rabinovich was also mentioned when the prosecution presented evidence on the 2008 murder of Rospishcheprom CEO Valery Zhuravlev.
During the hearing of witnesses on the episode of the murder in 2009 of the lawyer of the Moscow department store Andrey Bralyuk, the name of Grigory Rabinovich came up again.
Moreover, Grigory Rabinovich himself died on the night of June 26, 2024 in the Matrosskaya Tishina prison cell. He was 67 years old. Of which, he spent the last 5 years and 5 months from January 22, 2019 in a prison cell.
On July 17, 2024, the Moscow City Court decided the posthumous fate of Rabinovich. The Code of Criminal Procedure allowed for the termination of criminal prosecution of a defendant in connection with his death. But Rabinovich's family, represented by his 20-year-old daughter, insisted on continuing the trial of his father.
The court granted her daughter's request to continue the trial. At the same time, the court warned that she, as the official representative of the defendant, has the right to be present at all sessions. And the girl promised to use this right. But she never came to any other meeting. And in vain. Of course, children can be forgiven for idealizing their parents. But if Grigory Rabinovich's daughter had attended, for example, the meeting that took place on December 19, 2024, she might have realized that it would be better to stop criminal prosecution on a non-rehabilitative basis, in connection with the death of the defendant.
Than to watch the process, how rapidly, like an avalanche in the mountains, the volume of evidence grows that Grigory Rabinovich was far from an ordinary member of the Tagansky organized criminal group.
Rabinovich was the brain behind the group. He controlled the financial flows of Tagansky. And on December 19, 2024, lethal evidence was presented to the Moscow City Court. On this day, the jury was presented with the "Rabinovich archive", which was seized along with his computer during the search. There were thousands of files in the computer. Here are just a few of them. Rabinovich was a very meticulous accountant for the Taganskys. I recorded everything, even the smallest expenses.
For example, in the file "Cash Register" for August 2008, Rabinovich recorded 50 rubles spent on sending a notice to file a claim. 500 rubles for drying clothes, sugar, breadcrumbs, and another 500 rubles for groceries to the office.
Or, for example, I wrote down in the "expenses" column 1100 rubles for paying for a domain and 500 rubles for a computer mouse.
In the same place, Rabinovich recorded one million dollars in cash registers. But fake ones.
Or here are some very interesting expenses. On December 13, 2007, in the "expenses" column, Rabinovich indicated 150 thousand dollars transferred to the "senior consultant".
On December 21, 2007, the senior consultant received another $ 100,000.
A week later, on December 28 – a new tranche of 50 thousand dollars.
That is, only one "Senior Consultant" in December 2007 received 300 thousand dollars. But in addition to the "senior consultant", there was also a "young consultant", to whom Tagansky first transferred 10 thousand dollars, and then another 30 thousand euros. And the bailiffs were paid 22 thousand dollars.
50 thousand dollars went to a certain Alexander Davidovich.
Expenses were recorded for some Vas-Vas, to which the Taganskys also transferred 50 thousand dollars.
If all these amounts indicated by Rabinovich in the "expenses" column are not bribes, then what kind of money is this? And there are other quite reasonable questions. Why didn't the investigation establish to whom these bribes were transferred? Which officials are most likely in law enforcement? And why isn't Tagansky charged with paying bribes? Because the statute of limitations expired and the investigation did not want to unwind the tangle of long-standing bribes, fearing that the thread would lead to werewolves, officers who managed to become generals, who still serve in law enforcement agencies? I don't have any answers to these questions. But there are clues or versions in which direction to dig. At a meeting of the Moscow City Court on December 19, 2024, among the documents from the "Rabinovich archive", the jury was presented with a document called "The Situation of the MIND". UM is a Moscow department store.
Here is this document, in which Rabinovich scrupulously recorded all expenses related to the situation around the Moscow Department Store. And here again we see the "Senior Consultant" and "Vasily Vasilyevich", and "Nikolai Ivanovich" and "young consultant".
What is the situation around the Moscow Department Store? On December 9 last year, in the program "Tagansky" and the Department Store "Moscow", I already talked about the circumstances of the murder of the company's lawyer Andrey Bralyuk. And the events that led Tagansky to this crime. You can view this issue of the Ship's Log in full at the link below this video. Let me just remind you of some very important points.
In 2004, Tagansky leaders Igor Zhirnokleev and Grigory Rabinovich undertook to act as investors in the Moscow Department Store, which needed to renovate the building and update the trading model. Tagansky decided to buy out 88% of the company's shares and invest $ 200 million in the development of the Moscow Department Store. But when it came time to pay off the share buyback deal, it turned out that Tagansky didn't have any money.
This was due to temporary difficulties and large investments in other projects. As a result, Grigory Rabinovich convinced Dmitry Ulyanitsky, General Director of the Moscow Department Store, to get a loan of 300 million rubles from Sberbank. The loan was obtained by issuing it on the security of the Moscow department store building, a land plot that was leased from the company, and a personal guarantee from Ulyanitsky.
But on the same day that the credit money was transferred to the Moscow Department Store account, it was transferred to the accounts of four enterprises controlled by Zhirnokleev and Rabinovich. Another loan for 100 million rubles was issued to an enterprise controlled by Zhirnokleev. Again, under the guarantee of the Moscow Department Store and the personal guarantee of Ulyanitsky.
Tagansky became shareholders of one of the largest trading enterprises in Moscow. But the Department store handled the loan itself. And Tagansky only siphoned off money from the enterprise. There was no question of any investment.
I already said it in December last year, and I repeat: the Tagans turned out to be banal crooks, not investors. They were lousy businessmen. Department store Moscow, as they say, was thrown and bred for a lot of money. Ulyanitsky decided to get rid of such fake investors.
An additional examination was performed. Tagansky shares purchased with credit money received by the Moscow Department Store were blurred.
Trials began in Arbitration courts, in which Andrei Bralyuk very successfully defended the interests of the Moscow Department Store, as a result of which he was killed.
And through the prism of information about the "Rabinovich archive" , the confrontation between Tagansky and Dmitry Ulyanitsky's team began to play with new colors. This archive shows what huge resources Tagansky attracted to regain control of the department store. Rabinovich recorded
That only from October 2007 to February 2008 Tagansky spent 2 million 282 thousand dollars to regain control of the Moscow Department Store. And they returned it.
On December 19, 2024, at the Tagansky trial in the Moscow City Court, the jury was presented with another very interesting document. This is an internal memo from the Taganskys ' lawyer, who represented their interests at meetings in the Moscow Arbitration Court.
This document sets out suggestions on how to falsify evidence for an arbitration trial. At the same time, the author of the memo was well aware that Tagansky did not have the slightest right to shares in the Moscow Department Store. Because they didn't pay a penny for the shares. And they wrote out an unadorned bill of exchange.
And apparently Andrey Bralyuk proved it in court. For which he was killed. And all subsequent decisions on this litigation, most likely, were made with the help of senior and junior consultants. The criminal case against Dmitry Ulyanitsky, I suspect, was also initiated with the help of bribes to senior and young consultants in uniform. I can only wonder why the investigation did not want to unravel the tangle and bring to light the werewolves in uniform who had protected Tagansky for many years.
We continue to follow the trial of the Tagansky organized criminal group in the Moscow City Court.
